"A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being."

“Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.”

“I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.”

“I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

“Circumstances are the seeds of literature.”

Source : Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

“I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.”

“It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.48, Vanderbilt University Press

“I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.”

Source : "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism".

“All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.”